And believe it or not here is that same house. I lived here from age seven until 19. I loved this home. It was so hard to part with it, but I drive by now and think how cool it is that a new family is making memories there.

This is the house my mom and I moved into after the divorce. I wasn’t much, but we had each other and a dream to make it great.

The first picture I took on my first-ever iPhone. Mom and I at Red Lobster. Extra tartar sauce for our shrimp, please!

A black Friday collage! Mom and I used to go out every year on black Friday in our matching flake t-shirts. We’d buy for well over 30 kids, grandkids and great-grandkids. It was nuts but she loved it. My mom is indeed the queen of Christmas.